Overview
Theoretical condensed-matter; foundations of quantum mechanics.
Research Focus
My current activities are described on my homepage (http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/mermin/).
Publications
Books:
Space and Time in Special Relativity, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968.
Solid State Physics, with N. W. Ashcroft, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1976. Translations: Russian, 1979; Japanese, 1981-2; Polish, 1986; German, 2001; French, 2002; Portuguese, 2011.
Boojums all the Way Through, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Translations: Japanese, 1994.
It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity, Princeton University Press, 2005. Translations: Polish, 2008; Romanian, 2009; German, 2016; Greek, 2017.
Quantum Computer Science, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Translations: Japanese, 2009; French, 2010.
Why Quark Rhymes with Pork and Other Scientific Diversions, Cambridge University Press, 2016.